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...technique that rival Ruskin’s own. In this direct juxtaposition of the two artists, teacher and student, it can be said that Moore “out-Ruskins” Ruskin himself. The fineness of the lines attests to the amount of skill and control of the brush Moore possessed, and the way in which he seamlessly blends the rich hues of emerald green to aquamarine blue is breathtaking. Each fiber is palpable in its smooth, glossy sturdiness, but we can also feel the soft tufts of gray and white along the feather’s bottom, aware...
...prisoners weren't the only ones living in fear. Junior officers barely opened their mouths. Ranking officers like Moyo would not grant me permission to visit the toilet or brush my teeth without approval from their superiors. "I am just a worker," I heard the police-station chief say. "There are people above me." The jailers' anxiety about their bosses made them even more determined to demand respect from their prisoners. Moyo considered my demand for a lawyer insulting. "I am educated," he said. "And you do not cooperate." The walls of his office made clear that the regime...
Economics is the study of how society allocates its scarce resources. Perhaps some Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrators should brush up on their Ec 10, because there seem to be some problems with resource allocation around Harvard. This time, the economics department has drawn the short straw and found its library space expropriated by an inefficient and imperious University Hall. The economics department has been hoping for a renovation of its aging Littauer Center since the early 1990s. Once the Government department moved out of half of Littauer and into its swanky, new $140 million Center for Government...
...Agee, and other scribes at TIME, described her variously as "rubber-jointed," "brass-lunged," "super-dynamic," "bouncing, bawling," "raucous, rampageous." To Bob Hope she was "a vitamin pill with legs." She seemed to have swallowed a truckload full of them before every performance; she was indomitable, unstoppable, the Fuller Brush flack with a quick smile, a faster line of patter and her foot in your door...
...last week I received map coordinates for two bunkers in a valley near the Christian border village of Alma Shaab. With the coordinates logged into a GPS device, Ghaith and I walked carefully along a track winding through blossom-scented orange orchards at the bottom of a steep-sided brush-covered valley. Snakes and lizards basking in the hot sun slithered from beneath our feet. But we kept our eyes open for cluster bombs, which have since August caused 224 casualties among Lebanese civilians and mine-clearing crews, which had used red spray paint to mark the location of each...